Huge news for anyone with an AMD Radeon GPU or Steam Deck: Baldur's Gate 3 now supports AMD FSR 2. With great strides being made all the time in upscaling technology, it seemed a shame that anyone without an Nvidia GeForce RTX 20-series or later graphics card was limited to AMD FSR 1 in Larian's wonderful RPG.
While that upscaler can boost fps somewhat, it's since been upstaged by more recent, better technology. We're not sure exactly what performance gains Baldur's Gate 3 AMD FSR 2.2 can deliver, but it's sure to be an improvement over what we had before.
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Breaking news: Baldur's Gate 3's sex percent speedrunning category has been saved thanks to a quiet change from Larian.
Last week, a great tragedy struck the Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunning community. The game's fourth patch added a change that massively nerfed the sex percent category that has quickly taken the community by storm, a change that many thought spelled the end of the run. The change was specifically to do with Lae'zel, who it was previously pretty easy to get it on with. However, the update made it so that you had to have "proven yourself worthy through your actions," something that made those sub-two-minute runs impossible. But… as shared by the world record holder of the category Mae, the run is back to its former glory, thanks to a quiet update Larian released the same day as the main fourth patch.
As shared by Mae, Larian shared a 5MB-sized patch, which didn't seem to change anything at all at first. Then, speedrunner weedmoder ended up completing the speedrun the traditional way, prior to patch four, but not understanding why. As it turns out, that tiny patch was the one that made Lae'zel happy to clown with the player character as soon as she is.
An achievement added to Baldur’s Gate 3’s GOG release has teased the possible addition of a new permadeath mode for the D&D RPG - meaning that if your whole party dies, your save will be permanently wiped. In a game where play time counts can end up in the hundreds of hours, that’s a fairly terrifying prospect.
